A systems-based approach to the environmental risk assessment of multiple stressors in honey bees.

ABSTRACT: The European Parliament requested EFSA to develop a holistic risk assessment of multiple stressors in honey bees. To this end, a systems-based approach that is composed of two core components: a monitoring system and a modelling system are put forward with honey bees taken as a showcase. Key developments in the current scientific opinion (including systematic data collection from sentinel beehives and an agent-based simulation) have the potential to substantially contribute to future development of environmental risk assessments of multiple stressors at larger spatial and temporal scales. For the monitoring, sentinel hives would be placed across representative climatic zones and landscapes in the EU and connected to a platform for data storage and analysis. Data on bee health status, chemi

SUBMITTER: EFSA Scientific Committee 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8135085 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature